Month: December 2015

Last week I went to have a smog test done on my car and decided to go to Chili Johns because it was right across the street and I’d heard good things about this Burbank staple. When I walked in I felt transplanted to another place. It took a little (maybe 30-40 seconds of standing)…

  I was watching  the Strolling Cecile and Emeke short on Youtube and a sista brought to my attention this wonderfully ignorant holiday in the Netherlands called Sinterklass. Their version of Santa has a black sidekick named (Zwarte Piet) Black Pete. To my ears its a racial slur. The Dutch version of Nigger, Jiggaboo, or…

  Rio started off with bad energy. One of our tour mates fell as she was getting off the plane. It was decidedly whiter. It felt like being back in California. The only Black people I saw at the airport were my tour mates. Our tour guide was amazing. Like, he gave us an Afro-Brazilian…

A long awaited dream came true last month. I was finally able to go to Brazil! Back in about 2005 I had a realization of how the American education system has failed millions of citizens because until I saw City of God, I had no clue Black people were in South America. In my ignorance,…

Do you realize everything he does that tickles your funny bone is an imitation of Black Culture?  My social media feeds were abuzz with his portrayal of Terrence Howard on Empire, any skit he has with Justin Timberflake about the history of rap, and so on. Even his slow jam skit with the President pulls…